Barack Obama has chosen Rick Warren — a noted Evangelical preacher who has compared gay relationships to pedophilia and has been an outspoken opponent of equality for LGBTs — to give the invocation at his inauguration. Just in case you had any doubt about where the Obama administration is heading.
Archive for December, 2008
Obama chooses bigot for invocation.
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
Forget about politics?
Posted in Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, LGBT/Gay Rights, Politics, tagged David Paterson, Democratic Party, gay marriage, marriage equality, same-sex marriage on 6 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think I’m done being a patsy for politicians. It’s time for LGBTs to quit voting for people who don’t support full legal equality for LGBTs, or who don’t match their actions to their words.
We need to quit sending them our money, quit putting up signs, quit making phone calls, quit attending fundraisers, quit [...]
Doing unto others.
Posted in Gay Rights, Personal, Religion on 4 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the aftermath of our stunning defeat at the hands of religious bigots, Tom Ackerman has come up with an interesting proposal: Don’t recognize their marriages either. Ackerman says:
Yesterday I called a woman’s spouse her boyfriend.
She says, correcting me, “He’s my husband,”
“Oh,” I say, “I no longer [...]
Moving to Linux — slowly.
Posted in Computers, tagged Linux, Linux Canuck, Windows on 4 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have three computers; one of them runs a Linux OS, and two run a Windows OS — one runs Windows 98 and the other runs Windows XP. I don’t update Windows distributions. Whatever version of Windows comes on a computer is the version that computer will be wearing when it dies. I hate Windows. [...]